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and fifh-nets for fale ; with this money he buys a hog chap. 

 or two, fometimes fowls or ducks, all which he fattens ^ j^^vi^ 

 upon the fpontaneous growth of the foil, without ex- 

 pence, and very little trouble, and, in the end, they afford 

 him conliderable profit. Thus pleafantly fituated, he is 

 exempt from every anxiety, and pays no taxes, but looks 

 up to hjis mafter as the only protestor of him and his fa- 

 mily. He adores him, not from fear, but from a con- 

 viction that he is indebted to his goodnefs for all 

 the comforts he enjoys. He breathes in a luxurious 

 warm climate, like his own, which renders clothes 

 unneceffary, and he finds himfelf more healthy, as well 

 as more at his eafe, by going naked. His houfe he may 

 build after his own fancy. The forefl: affords him every 

 neceffary material for the cutting. His bed is a ham- 

 mock, or a mat called papaya^ His pots he manufactures 

 himfelf, and his dilhes are gourds, which grow in his 

 garden. He never lives with a wife he does not love, ex- 

 changing for another the moment either he or fiie be- 

 comes tired, though this reparation happens lefs fre- 

 quently here than divorces do in Europe. Befides the 

 regular allowance given him by his mafier weekly, his 

 female friend has the art of making many favoury 

 difhes ; fuch as braf, or a hodge-podge of plantains 

 and yams boiled with fait meat, barbacued fiih, and 

 Cayenne pepper. Tom-tom is a very good pudding, 

 compofed of the flour of Indian corn, boiled with flefhj 

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